Pie charts illustrating the findings of the Women's Media Center 2025 Report: Gender and Non-Acting Emmy Nominations
For the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, 2,634 people have been nominated in 102 non-acting categories. Of these nominees, 855 (33%) are women, 1,774 (67%) are men, and five (less than 1%) are nonbinary. These percentages show slightly lower female representation compared to the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
When it comes to progress for women nominees in non-acting categories, it’s business as usual for the Primetime Emmys: The total percentage of women who got nominations in non-acting categories has continued to stall at below 40% every year.
The Women’s Media Center report - WMC 2020 Investigation: Gender & Non-Acting Primetime Emmy Nominations - shows that a bigger pool of nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards hasn’t made much of a difference in bringing overall gender parity to the nominations in behind-the-scenes categories: Women represented 35% of those nominations while men were 65%.
The Women’s Media Center research found that a bigger pool of nominations for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards hasn’t made much of a difference in bringing overall gender parity to the nominations in behind-the-scenes categories: Women represented 35% of those nominations while men were 65%.
Despite a year in television that was dominated by female-driven content on screen, gender parity remains elusive for women in non-acting nominations for the 2019 Primetime Emmy Awards, according to the most recent Women’s Media Center analysis.
SuperPowering Women in Science Fiction and Superhero Film — A Women’s Media Center Report in Association with BBC America, our second joint study, explores the overall history of female representation in front of and behind the camera in the science fiction and superhero film genres and conducts a deeper dive into representation in the past decade.
SuperPowering Women in Science Fiction and Superhero Film — A Women’s Media Center Report in Association with BBC America, our second joint study, explores the overall history of female representation in front of and behind the camera in the science fiction and superhero film genres and conducts a deeper dive into representation in the past decade.
The 2019 Oscar nominations were disappointing for women behind the camera, with no women nominated in Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, and Visual Effects, and only one woman nominated in Animated Feature film and in each of the two writing categories. Industry-wide efforts to improve gender parity has had some impact, but not as much as anticipated, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis.
SuperPowering Girls: Female Representation in the Sci/Fi Superhero Genre is the first in a series of reports that BBC America and the Women’s Media Center will release over the next few months with a goal of expanding both the diversity and representation of women and girls in front of and behind the camera.
SuperPowering Girls: Female representation in the sci-fi/superhero genre -- a study on the impact of representation in science fiction and superhero genre on girls. Infographic.
Women represent only 20 percent of the non-acting categories in the 89th annual Academy Award nominations, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis. Despite an overhaul of membership last year, where hundreds of new members were invited, including many women and people of color, female Oscar nominees dipped two percentage points from last year’s nominations. Infographic.
Overview of the findings of the report and downloadable pdf of the full report.
The Women’s Media Center's 10 year review of gender and EMMY nominations focused on the categories of writing (6), directing (8), editing (10), and producing (20). In its analysis of the nominations made for the years 2006 through 2015, WMC sought to take a detailed look at the gender ratios of jobs that have the most influence on what is depicted on the small screen. Out of all the nominees nominated in 44 writing, directing, editing, and producing categories over the past decade, 2,074 of them were women, representing only 22 percent of the total. There were 7,485 men nominated, 78 percent of the total.
Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media Center stated, “The Women’s Media Center congratulates all Academy Award nominees – it is a great day of recognition for their talent and artistic vision. However, we are concerned that for the fourth year in a row, fewer than one in five of all non-acting nominees are women.”